Category Archives: IT Project Management
Requirements, Risks, UnOffical Projects, and Pricey SharePoint Consultants.
This has been a challenge. I am involved with a 2 million dollar project that is under tremendous time constraints. The project itself is a MOSS (SharePoint 2007) project, and it is very stressful because of a variety of reasons. … Continue reading
FOAF Yourself – RDF style
I just realized that with all the talk I do – in public and private – about the Semantic Web, I dont even have a link to the Foaf-A-Matic project on my blog. This was an oversight on my part, … Continue reading
Risk Management Template – Based on MSF Template
The template is formatted nicely for you in the link at the end of this post. I also want to state, nice and early, that this template is adopted from a MSF document. It has proven itself a nice risk … Continue reading
Quick and Dirty Software Testing Without a Formal Testing Plan
I like building Test Cases from Use Cases. I do it for fun, sometimes. Last week however, we were presented with a sudden deadline. We had no forewarning. We were not prepared. The project was dormant for a long time, … Continue reading
Portals: Requirements Definition and Plain Old Definition
I have worked on several “portal” projects in my career. Here is a list of the ones that I can think of right now, at the end of a very busy week: 1. A portal to allow Union members to … Continue reading
A Victory for "Barely Good Enough" Use Cases
I have been struggling lately. It is a private battle, and I don’t think that it shows. I am consulting part time with a team of Project Managers that is used to writing Use Cases that read like miniature novels, … Continue reading
JAD Sessions
Wow. I hadn’t heard the term in a long time. Then, I came across this: http://www.umsl.edu/~sauter/analysis/JAD.html It is a nice little writeup of JAD (Joint Application Development). IBM has been doing it since 1980. Of course, the site looks about … Continue reading
Use Cases: a Soliloquy Upon Thee.
Use Cases are SEXY. Use Cases are DYNAMIC and HOT. Use Cases ROCK. Use Cases set my loins ABLAZE! You will never hear anyone say any of those things. Project Mangers and Business Analysts tend to grimace when you mention … Continue reading
The Define Phase
Every major PM methodology that I am aware of: PMI (Initiation and Planning phases), Prince2 (Starting, Initiating and Planning), RUP (the Rational Unified Process calls it “Inception“) and even the Microsoft Solutions Framework (Envisioning) has a “Define” phase of some … Continue reading
Project Management – hard or soft skillsets?
I can see both arguments, because I am aware of both types of Project Managers. There are Project Managers that function as Project Coordinators and have to do a lot of record-keeping, scheduling, and other more ‘administrative activities’. Then there … Continue reading